# 3.3. Mouse Buttons

Left

  Clicking the left button is passed as an event to the application running in the emulation, if it is mouse-aware. If a program will react on mouse clicks Konsole indicates this by showing an arrow cursor. If not, an I-beam (bar) cursor is shown.

  Holding the left button down and dragging the mouse over the screen with a mouse-unaware application running will mark a region of the text. While dragging, the marked text is displayed reversed for visual feedback. When the button is released, the marked text is copied to the clipboard for further use within Konsole or another application.

  Normally, new-line characters are inserted at the end of each line selected. This is best for cut and paste of source code, or the output of a particular command. For ordinary text, the line breaks are often not important. One would prefer for the text to be a stream of characters that will be automatically re-formatted when pasted another application. To select in text-stream mode, hold down the Ctrl key while selecting normally.

  If the upper or lower edge of the text area is touched while marking, Konsole scrolls up or down, eventually exposing text within the history buffer. The scrolling stops when the mouse stops moving.

  After the mouse is released, Konsole attempts to keep the text in the clipboard visible by holding the marked area reversed. The marked area reverts back to normal as soon as either the contents of the clipboard is changed, the text within the marked area is altered or the left mouse button is clicked.

  To mark text on a mouse-aware application the Shift key has to be pressed when clicking.

Middle

  Pressing the middle button pastes text currently in the clipboard.

  | If you have a mouse with only two buttons, pressing both the left and right buttons together emulates the middle button of a three button mouse.

Right

  The right button up the "Options" menu. The Ctrl + right button brings up the "File" menu, while Shift + right button brings up the "Sessions" menu.